9:40 PM,
Sep. 12, 2013

Michelle Pfeiffer, left, and Robert DeNiro star in 'The Family.'

Written by

Kerry Lengel
| The Arizona Republic

In "The Family," Robert De Niro stars as a former mafia boss living under witness protection in France. Despite his FBI handlers' incessant admonishments to lie low, he just can't stop killing and maiming people for offenses ranging from poisoning the watershed to selling him rotten lobsters.

But he never harms innocents - as he explains in the memoir he's typing up at his latest hideout in Normandy - because "all my sadistic urges are satisfied when I cause pain for a good reason." ...